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...according to the secretary for the Class of 1943, Galen L. Stone.Manne graduated from Harvard as a member of Phi Beta Kappa when he was 18 years old. He then served in the Navy during the last years of World War II. Soon afterward, he worked at the RAND corporation, an Air Force think-tank. There he formed many relationships with his colleagues—including Nobel laureate Harry M. Markowitz—that would last throughout his life. “Alan was a very intelligent and very productive colleague,” Markowitz said...
...Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of writer Ayn Rand. Her first—and best—novel, “The Fountainhead,” published in 1943, tells the story of an independent-minded architect, Howard Roark, who rebels against the collectivist ethos of New Deal America. The sex scenes between Roark and his on-again-off-again lover, journalist Dominique Francon, are so violent that Roark could probably be charged with rape today. And, post-9/11, readers may be less tolerant towards Roark, who has a disturbing propensity to blow up architecturally...
...still, "the problem is to rebuild an entire housing system for tens of thousands of people in an industry that may be three-quarters of the way through its life," says Alan Fine, spokesman for mining giant AngloGold Ashanti. Strong local currency is also a problem; South Africa's rand has strengthened over the past few years, hurting margins on exports. As South Africa's mines reach the end of their productive lives, expect more unrest...
...officials now believe that every province does not need to be completely pacified before U.S. troops pull out. In the past three months, the Pentagon has concluded that the war against the insurgents "is not winnable in the near term," says Seth Jones, an Iraq expert at the Rand Corp. Pentagon officers have been reviewing other insurgencies' histories, which indicate that the rebels take, on average, nine years to defeat...